UPDATE: 8/19/25 5:00 a.m. ET — The BBC stated it pulled a brand new documentary detailing Ozzy Osbourne’s ultimate years simply hours earlier than it was resulting from air on the behest of his household.
“Our sympathies are with the Osbourne household at this troublesome time. We’re respecting the household’s needs to attend a bit longer earlier than airing this very particular movie. The brand new [transmission] date can be confirmed shortly,” the BBC stated in a press release to Us Weekly on Tuesday, August 19.
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A brand new Ozzy Osbourne documentary set to air within the U.Ok. on Monday, August 18, and element the ultimate years of the star’s life has been pulled from the schedule, the BBC confirmed to Us Weekly.
“The movie has moved within the schedules, and we’ll verify new [transmission] particulars in the end,” a BBC spokesperson stated in a press release to Us.
Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Residence was set to air Monday evening on BBC One, simply weeks after the Black Sabbath frontman’s loss of life at age 76 on July 22.
In an announcement earlier in August, the BBC described the movie as a “shifting and inspirational account of the final chapter of Ozzy’s life, instructed via distinctive and intimate entry to the entire Osbourne household, together with [Ozzy’s wife] Sharon, [son] Jack and [daughter] Kelly.”
Ozzy Osbourne bought greater than 100 million data worldwide between his solo profession and his days as a member of Black Sabbath previous to his loss of life in 2025. The England native acquired his begin in 1967 when he joined bassist Geezer Butler’s first band, Uncommon Breed, as a vocalist. Though the group didn’t final lengthy, […]
The mission was initially conceived in 2022 as a brand new docuseries following Ozzy and Sharon, 72, returning to the U.Ok. after a long time of dwelling in Los Angeles. The present was envisioned as a non secular successor to the household’s hit MTV actuality present, The Osbournes, which aired from 2002 to 2005.
The movie follows the couple’s transfer again to their native U.Ok., Ozzy’s battle with Parkinson’s illness and his preparations for Black Sabbath’s ultimate live performance, which happened simply two weeks earlier than his loss of life.
“It was an unimaginable privilege to spend the previous couple of years with Ozzy, in addition to Sharon, Jack and Kelly. Ozzy wished to make it again to the U.Ok. and seem on stage one final time — our movie is an inspiring and poignant account of him fulfilling that dream,” government producers Ben Wicks and Colin Barr stated in a press release earlier in August.
The producers continued, “Ozzy was cherished by hundreds of thousands world wide not only for his music, however for his sense of mischief and his honesty, all of which we noticed loads of within the ultimate years of his life. However one factor shone via much more brightly to us, and that was Ozzy’s intense love for his distinctive household, who had been by his aspect via all of it.”
Ozzy Osbourne’s life on and off the stage was full of numerous OMG moments. All through his profession, the Black Sabbath member saved followers guessing with what he was going to say — and do — subsequent. Through the years, Osbourne made headlines for reportedly stripping in Germany, portray his nostril purple and by accident peeing on […]
Ozzy’s household introduced his loss of life in a press release to Us on July 22. “It’s with extra disappointment than mere phrases can convey that we have now to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has handed away this morning,” the household stated. “He was together with his household and surrounded by love. We ask everybody to respect our household privateness right now.”
Ozzy was laid to relaxation following a funeral in his hometown of Birmingham on July 30.
